Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... claims upon our affec- tion . It is the absence of anything to excite interest and to enlist the feelings of the heart , which has been the great cause of the present degradation of our ver- nacular architecture ; and it is a happy ...
... claims upon our affec- tion . It is the absence of anything to excite interest and to enlist the feelings of the heart , which has been the great cause of the present degradation of our ver- nacular architecture ; and it is a happy ...
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... claims upon our sympathy , and for its proper use we must depend upon ourselves . In church architecture , we have so generally comé to the conclusion that the best period of our national architecture was the end of the thirteenth and ...
... claims upon our sympathy , and for its proper use we must depend upon ourselves . In church architecture , we have so generally comé to the conclusion that the best period of our national architecture was the end of the thirteenth and ...
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... claim that in the same building , or in buildings of the same style , the one or the other should be used as circumstances may chance to dic- tate : thus , if stone be abundant , it would claim arches . for wide openings , and lintels ...
... claim that in the same building , or in buildings of the same style , the one or the other should be used as circumstances may chance to dic- tate : thus , if stone be abundant , it would claim arches . for wide openings , and lintels ...
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... where the pointed arch is the leading type , the round or other forms of arch may be admitted freely , but never without a practical reason . I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty 28 On the leading External Features and.
... where the pointed arch is the leading type , the round or other forms of arch may be admitted freely , but never without a practical reason . I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty 28 On the leading External Features and.
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Sir George Gilbert Scott. I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty to use the arch or the lintel as circumstances may dictate , but reserving fully a preference , cæteris pari- bus , for the arch ; and in the same manner I claim ...
Sir George Gilbert Scott. I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty to use the arch or the lintel as circumstances may dictate , but reserving fully a preference , cæteris pari- bus , for the arch ; and in the same manner I claim ...
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Página 117 - ... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.
Página 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Página 287 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Página 119 - I am quite assured that all the irregularities that are so beautiful in ancient architecture are the result of certain necessary difficulties, and were never purposely designed ; for to make a building inconvenient for the sake of obtaining irregularity would be scarcely less ridiculous than preparing working drawings for a new ruin. But all these inconsistencies have arisen from this great error, — the plans of buildings are designed to suit the elevation, instead of the elevation being made subservient...
Página 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Página 118 - An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties; and this constitutes the great difference between the principles of classic and pointed domestic architecture. In the former he would be compelled to devise expedients to conceal these irregularities; in the latter he has only to beautify them.
Página 4 - It is not too much to say that the ruling theology of the Church of England in the latter half of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was...
Página 117 - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...